Señora Gose's Homeschool Spanish Blog (aka "Seriously, Suzanne")

I hope this series of teaching teens Spanish (and truly ANYTHING) has been helpful to you! Remember - if you don't have a teen yet, one day you will! Learning along with your high schooler in your homeschool day is a fail-safe way to check in on their understanding. And while learning a foreign language, you must most CERTAINLY must know your purpose for doing so. It's a VERY hard thing to do. You can't just look at a list, read it over and have it in your head. It's not enough. Unlike other facts-based classes (history, science, literature), language is a...

TEACHING TEENS TIP #8: It must be useful IMMEDIATELY. When you're a teenager being taught something, the first question you ask, is, "When am I ever going to use this?" So! Give them the ability to use their new knowledge RIGHT NOW. What do they love to do? (What do we all love to do?) We LOVE to give an opinion. I like, I don't like, I love, I hate... ALLLL those sentence starters are like GOLD when they are learning any new verb, noun, or adjective. Give them the ability to create an opinion, and it is useful to...

Buenos días. Today we get to talk about the differences between Flip Flop Spanish and Spanish Geniuses. What are all the differences? I've gotten a lot of questions this week, especially with the back to school flurry!Flip Flop Spanish. Let's start with the younger ages. If you have a kindergartner, as young as three years old, all the way up to 13, 14, or 15, and any of those ages in between, you're going to want See it and Say it Flip Flop Spanish. It's a full set, two years of curriculum that is fit for the whole family. Everything is...

Prefer a video summary? In America, the most useful second language is Spanish, so I hope these 12 days help you engage and have a SUPER FUN stress free time of learning along with your teen. I have 5 kiddos, and each of them have put forth various amounts of effort In learning their second (and some third!) language. When they WANT It, man, there's no STOPPING them! And when they don't, it's VERY difficult to help. So.... here are the DIRTY DOZEN - simple tips to help you and your high schooler acquire a second language - because they...

There are SO SO many options to studying The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I haven't gotten my felt set in yet, but I'll be adding that to the reading lesson videos as soon as I do! Here are all the files for my newsletter subscribers! What else did you study with this book? Leave a comment and help the others out!Need to buy the book? Click the cover!   Here's a bilingual version, too! Click the cover for a board book or hardcover option - both less than $10.   In Spanish or English, your homeschool can be filled with lessons...